009 Space Fortress Lone Star
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009 Space Fortress Lone Star
AN: Just a reminder, in the old G1 Comics the Wreckers were more like a suicide mission squad that the memetic badasses they became later. And they did keep losing members. They were basically there to show Ultra Magnus being cool.
****Scavenger****
Log 017
Now, while I was busy doing a lot of things during the two years we had hold Haven, getting the space station meant a steady supply of Midgrade Energon and that getting Highgrade Energon was easier and cheaper.
And most important, was that I let Nova have full access to the most advanced of the two fabricators we had, so she could do whatever she wanted with it. It was basically to test how advanced her artificial intellect was.
The result was that Nova had modified a third of the cargo storage on the Lone Star and the whole front of the ship, to give the ship a really really really big gun.
Imagine if you will a ship about 150% bigger than the Ark or the Nemesis, with a quarter of it's storage space full of Midgrade Energon, all to power up a cannon powerful enough to blow up Earth's moon in a single shot.
Nova used said cannon to give the Wreckers a warning shot, that passed hundreds of meters away from the ship. And even then damaged their ship.
#Hellooo dear enemies! That was just an itsy bitsy warning shot! Now you can either get blow up, or we can enter negotiations!#
Nova sounded very smug and happy when she said that.
See, I had this fear that if I killed any the neutral or good guys that could help Optimus Prime, that would mean Megatron would win and that meant Unicron wins and so goodbye universe.
Nova? She not only did not share my fears but what she cared the most was my safety.
"Decepticon scum If you think that-" Said a raspy voice using the coms and then was interrupted.
"SHUT UP THE FRAG UP WHIRL! THAT THING COULD HAVE BLOW UP THE ARK IN ONE SHOT! AND OUR CRAPPY SHIP IS NOT THE FRAGGING ARK!" Said what It sounded like an old mech voice. Their ship even stopped coming closer.
Well, maybe the canon actually could have blow the Arc, if the Ark shields had been down that is; and Nova had used full power on the cannon.
"Better to die free that-" The raspy voice recently named Whirl tried to argue.
"SHUT UP! I KNOW YOU HAVE ISSUES BUT I WON'T LET YOU GET THE WHOLE CREW KILLED! AS THE MEDICAL OFFICER I RELIEVE YOU OF COMMAND OF THIS SHIP UNTIL I FIND THAT YOUR MENTAL ISSUES WON'T GET US KILLED!"
"Wait a minute, is that you Ratchet?" I asked interrupting the yelling match.
"WHO THE FRAG...ehem, to who I am talking to?" The old mech voice said.
"I am Scavenger, chief engineer of the Lone Star and second in command of the Haven space station."
"I don't remember even metting anyone with that name miss, from where do you know me from?" Rachet seemed quite polite, then again we literally had superior firepower. Not how I would have liked to deal with things but even my Boss Jetfire had agreed to let Nova have control of the big cannon... dunno why, maybe the Furies had convinced him or something.
I didn't want to ask, because I was not attracted to Transformers that way and so the less I thought about stuff like that the better; thank you very much.
"Rachet, aren't you supposed to be in the Ark with Optimus Prime?" I asked to change the topic.
"Me? No, the Arc medical officer is Red Alert."
'Red Alert? Well whatever.'
"Rachet! Don't go giving information to the enemy you traitor!"
"Shut up, the members of the crew in the Ark and the Nemesis are public record!"
"Okay... any reason you idiots thought trying to take over a space station, when most bots seem to love the new management, was good idea?" I just had to ask.
"Because we won't let the Deceptions abuse-"
I heard a clanking sound, I guessed Whirl got punched.
"Are you rebelling too Bulkhead?" The voice sounded quite angry.
"You are no longer the Captain Whirl and we either try to talk things out or we all get killed! I didn't join this crew to be target practice! And we were supposed to just do a supply run to start with!" The named Bulkhead voice sounded young, but not like a human kid, more like a teenager.
"DO I NEED TO STRAP YOU TWO IN MY MEDICAL BEDS FOR A FULL CHECK UP OR WHAT?" Rachet yelled and then there was silence for about a minute.
"We aren't Decepticons." I decided to break the silence
"What? Everyone knows your Boss is one!" This time it was Bulkhead yelling.
"And yet, does anyone else in this space station wear the Decepticon symbol?"
"No, but you have those monster droids as guards!" Bulkhead protested.
Yeah... that turned to not be one of my best ideas in hindsight, but I already had them and I had other priorities that building pretty looking robots, thank you very much.
"Is... is just you three on the ship?"
'Of course not, that would be ridiculous, right?'
"We refuse to answer that question." Rachet answered.
"So... is the rest of you injured or something?"
"No of course not! Why would you think that?" Bulkhead quickly answered.
"So if I were to offer you three medical and ship repair supplies for free, you wouldn't take them?"
"Can we get a moment to discuss about it?" Rachet asked.
"Sure, go ahead."
The communication cut off and it was several minutes before they contacted us again.
"So... you really aren't Decepticons? Despite Jetfire been know as Starscream's friend and those monster bots?" Bulkhead asked.
"Look, Jetfire has not associated with the Decepticons since they became extremists, he just did keep the symbol for sentimental reasons. But since there is no way I can't comvince you guys of that, here is what we are going to do. I will send a cargo ship with medical supplies to your location, you will take the supplies and leave. Otherwise I will let my friend Nova kill you with the Lone Star Moonbuster Cannon. Sounds good?"
Well, is not arrogant to call the cannon that if it literally can destroy moons.
"Who will be piloting the cargo ship?" Rachet asked.
"A drone. Try anything funny and the cargo ship will explode in your faces."
There was almost a minute of silence, they were probably arguing using internal coms.
"That sounds acceptable, just one question, why didn't you just kill us?"
"Because we are neutral, we don't want either Decepticons or Autobots causing us trouble. That's bad for business."
"Fine, we will take the deal." Rachet said in a resigned tone.
My best guess was, either it was really just three mechs or more likely, most of the crew was so damaged they had been forced to put them on stasis mode.
That would explain why Rachet would jump at the Captain with the coms on and why an admittedly unstable mech had been the Captain to start with.
Is one thing to be a suicidal idiot, is a different one to do so while putting a ship with injured bots on it at risk, more so if said bots are your comrades at arms.
"Glad to hear that, expect the cargo ship to arrive shorty and please do not try to get any closer to the space station. And yes that includes trying to sneak inside the cargo ship, that by the way can and will explode if needed."
It says something about my paranoia that I already had a cargo ship that was rigged to explode at my command before this, so I just had drones fill that one with medical supplies and even included some midgrade Energon alcohol. I wasn't gonna waste the better stuff on them, even if I kind of liked Rachet.
So the so called Wreckers picked the medical supplies and left, I wasn't quite sure what in the pit had this been about. Had the Decepticons leaked that the Wreckers were headed to Haven? Unless I was wrong about the rest of their crew, there was no way Rachet would have allowed an attack on this station with just three mechs.
Of course I blew up the cargo ship, just to be sure, I just waited until they were gone first.
'So what? They were heading here just to get supplies and then we were the ones who fired the first shot? Maybe yes, maybe not.
And actually, they didn't refer to themselves as the Wreckers at any point.
Suspicious.'
"Hey Nova, who told us these guys were the Wreckers anyway?"
#It was a rumor, but according to my database, Bulkhead and Whirl, were, are or will be members of the Wreckers, but that is based on information you have me and we already know not everything in this universe fits.#
"Any way to find out who started the rumor?"
#Unfortunately no, because you refused my idea to have hidden spy cameras and microphones all over Haven.#
I was paranoid, not Big Brother, and it was enough I could spy on anyone in the space station using drones if I wanted anyway.
"Well, at least anyone who watched your warning shot will think twice before trying to attack us. How are the shield upgrades for the Lone Star going?"
#Slow, the ship is too big and old and too much hardware needs to be replaced. And I can't do things too fast or it will make people aware of what we are doing.#
As soon as Nova had finished her super weapon upgrade to the Lone Star, I had put her in charge of the forcefield problem.
Of course part of the problem was perfectionism, Nova and I didn't want just your average forcefield, but the best we could build.
That also meant Blue Energon aka Highgrade. So even if the systems were finished, it was gonna take a while to get the energy stores for the forcefield to be full.
Of course the forcefields were going to be able to work using other energy sources but that would be at a cost of them not being as good at their job.
And it had not been three days later when Shockwave of the Deceptions wanted the Lone Star for himself.
And if I had been nervous about the Wreckers that maybe had not actually been the Wreckers, I was absolutely terrified of him.
With Megatron I could have played with his ego, but Shockwave prided himself in acting logical.
For example, he actually entered Haven in a civilian vessel before making his demand. That way we couldn't blow him up with the Moonbuster cannon unless we wanted to also lose the space station.
And he could also easily take hostages from the station workers that weren't drones if he wanted.
And if that wasn't bad enough, the freaking Dinobots of all bots showed up, also wanting the Lone Star!
Grimlock challenged Shockwave to a duel, we actually had a fighting stadium in Haven after all. And while Shockwave would probably have prefered a less fair fight, refusing would make him lose the respect of his troops. So he saw accepting as the logical choice.
And what did we do? Well nothing says we had to stay in the space station and watch the stupid duel or let any of the two groups steal our ship.
Yet... we couldn't abandon Jetfire, he was under watch by the Decepticon troops. But since I had not been in the station when the 'gentle bots' arrived, they didn't know were I was.
Unlike me, Jetfire was an important Transformers character and he still had that stupid Decepticon logo.
Not to mention that while I didn't think Shockwave would be unfair, he wouldn't tolerate any signs of rebellion if he won.
Oh and if Grimlock won they would probably trash the place and maybe end killing some bots if I just picked Jetfire and escaped with the Lone Star.
It was during their fight that I finally noticed something important, Grimlock and the other Dinobots had Decepticon symbols too!
In my defence... no there is nothing to say in my defence.
Now, Shockwave was smart and tough but there was one thing to Grimlock advantage, he was a former gladiator just like Megatron. And just like Megatron, he had not just been a Gladiator, but a champion.
And if there's one thing a gladiator bot is good at is one vs one fights.
So it cost Grimlock getting his arm damaged but he won.
And then Jetfire chalengued Grimlock, even offering to tie an arm behind his back. Heck, he even offered to have one of the others Dinobots help to fight him.
Grimlock of course refused to have that advantage, and that's when Jetfire size and mass advantage, plus the few upgrades he had allowed Fixit to install made a difference.
And by that I meant they were almost evenly matched, Grimlock was a way more experienced and brutal warrior, but Jetfire was a former Decepticon rebel. And he was able to walk away from said rebellion and survive until he found me at least.
So he was good too, just not that good. That was what I thought until both fighters started to slow down and my Boss pulled a blue energon saturated blade and stabbed it next to Grimlock Spark chamber.
The message was clear, he could have killed Grimlock any time during the duel, and that gladiator skill and warrior skills were different. Even in lethal matches, gladiators fought to give a show to an audience, a warrior fought to kill their enemy as fast as possible.
Surprisingly, Grimlock accepted his defeat, and Shockwave accepted that the Lone Star belonged to us.
Good thing too, because if Jetfire had lost... I may have done something I would have regretted forever.
Still just to be sure, I had the losers scorted away from Haven by a mix of Abominaroids, Guardian Robots and an army of mercenaries I had hired as soon as the first duel had started.
And after they finally fragging left I have Jetfire a hug and a have Fixit look him over for any injuries or anything else he had wrong.
Then I decided to enter stasis for twenty hours straight before my nervous breakdown finally started, with orders to Nova and the Furies to take care of things and only wake me up before that if another crisis happened.
After I woke up of stasis, I relieved my stress with a simulation were I killed zombie like bots for hours. And then I finally I talked with Jetfire about what to do. The Lone Star had become too temping a price and while Shockwave and Grimlock would probably keep their word, they likely weren't the only ones interested.
I wasn't going to let our spaceship be destroyed, not only would that be stupid, but also kill Nova. The AI had grown too much to fit in any portable computer, and by portable I mean any system we could carry away from the ship. And while I could transfer her to another big computer, making her the space station Haven main AI would put her at even more risk.
Joining the Deceptions was out the question and I honesty didn't want to be an Autobot since that would mean to have the Lone Star confiscated. Jetfire didn't want to end fighting Starscream and with both the Prime and Megatron not around is not like he was in a hurry to pick sides. The truce was technically going on after all.
There was also an option that I was saving as a last choice and could go horrible wrong, so in the end it was decided that Jetfire would stay as leader of Haven keeping most of the droids, save the Abominaroids and the Furies and with some mercenaries who were temped to become guards of Haven.
While I would leave in the Lone Star with the best fabricator, the Abominaroids, the Furies and some hired crew. Officially it was a supply run, unofficially he was letting me go to avoid the decent folk on Haven to be in danger.
And thats when I found myself as both the Captain and chief engineer of the Lone Star and no fragging clue what to do save to stay the frag away from both Decepticons and Autobots to keep Nova safe.
AN2: Do remember that G1 Jetfire Alt form in a Cybertronian spaceship big enough to fit a few Transformers inside it. So his weapons should also reflect that, here he didn't outright destroy Grimlock because firing even small spaceship grade weapons inside a space station tends to be a horrible idea, plus it was a duel. The energon supercharged blade was to show that Jetfire didn't even need his powerful guns to kill Grimlock. And that the former gladiator mech had been fighting the duel the wrong way. And that's not even taking into account the upgrades. Without those, the duel would have got a bit closer but Jetfire would still have pulled the same thing, if at the cost of losing a leg to make Grimlock lower his guard.
Also Scavenger doesn't know it, but at this time period Grimlock and the others are the "Dynobots" not "Dinobots" since their alt forms aren't dinosaurs yet. Is my way to make sence of the name without them being build in Earth origin story.
Sorry for those who were expecting an epic fight, and if the justification to not join the Autobots feels weak.
AN: Just a reminder, in the old G1 Comics the Wreckers were more like a suicide mission squad that the memetic badasses they became later. And they did keep losing members. They were basically there to show Ultra Magnus being cool.
****Scavenger****
Log 017
Now, while I was busy doing a lot of things during the two years we had hold Haven, getting the space station meant a steady supply of Midgrade Energon and that getting Highgrade Energon was easier and cheaper.
And most important, was that I let Nova have full access to the most advanced of the two fabricators we had, so she could do whatever she wanted with it. It was basically to test how advanced her artificial intellect was.
The result was that Nova had modified a third of the cargo storage on the Lone Star and the whole front of the ship, to give the ship a really really really big gun.
Imagine if you will a ship about 150% bigger than the Ark or the Nemesis, with a quarter of it's storage space full of Midgrade Energon, all to power up a cannon powerful enough to blow up Earth's moon in a single shot.
Nova used said cannon to give the Wreckers a warning shot, that passed hundreds of meters away from the ship. And even then damaged their ship.
#Hellooo dear enemies! That was just an itsy bitsy warning shot! Now you can either get blow up, or we can enter negotiations!#
Nova sounded very smug and happy when she said that.
See, I had this fear that if I killed any the neutral or good guys that could help Optimus Prime, that would mean Megatron would win and that meant Unicron wins and so goodbye universe.
Nova? She not only did not share my fears but what she cared the most was my safety.
"Decepticon scum If you think that-" Said a raspy voice using the coms and then was interrupted.
"SHUT UP THE FRAG UP WHIRL! THAT THING COULD HAVE BLOW UP THE ARK IN ONE SHOT! AND OUR CRAPPY SHIP IS NOT THE FRAGGING ARK!" Said what It sounded like an old mech voice. Their ship even stopped coming closer.
Well, maybe the canon actually could have blow the Arc, if the Ark shields had been down that is; and Nova had used full power on the cannon.
"Better to die free that-" The raspy voice recently named Whirl tried to argue.
"SHUT UP! I KNOW YOU HAVE ISSUES BUT I WON'T LET YOU GET THE WHOLE CREW KILLED! AS THE MEDICAL OFFICER I RELIEVE YOU OF COMMAND OF THIS SHIP UNTIL I FIND THAT YOUR MENTAL ISSUES WON'T GET US KILLED!"
"Wait a minute, is that you Ratchet?" I asked interrupting the yelling match.
"WHO THE FRAG...ehem, to who I am talking to?" The old mech voice said.
"I am Scavenger, chief engineer of the Lone Star and second in command of the Haven space station."
"I don't remember even metting anyone with that name miss, from where do you know me from?" Rachet seemed quite polite, then again we literally had superior firepower. Not how I would have liked to deal with things but even my Boss Jetfire had agreed to let Nova have control of the big cannon... dunno why, maybe the Furies had convinced him or something.
I didn't want to ask, because I was not attracted to Transformers that way and so the less I thought about stuff like that the better; thank you very much.
"Rachet, aren't you supposed to be in the Ark with Optimus Prime?" I asked to change the topic.
"Me? No, the Arc medical officer is Red Alert."
'Red Alert? Well whatever.'
"Rachet! Don't go giving information to the enemy you traitor!"
"Shut up, the members of the crew in the Ark and the Nemesis are public record!"
"Okay... any reason you idiots thought trying to take over a space station, when most bots seem to love the new management, was good idea?" I just had to ask.
"Because we won't let the Deceptions abuse-"
I heard a clanking sound, I guessed Whirl got punched.
"Are you rebelling too Bulkhead?" The voice sounded quite angry.
"You are no longer the Captain Whirl and we either try to talk things out or we all get killed! I didn't join this crew to be target practice! And we were supposed to just do a supply run to start with!" The named Bulkhead voice sounded young, but not like a human kid, more like a teenager.
"DO I NEED TO STRAP YOU TWO IN MY MEDICAL BEDS FOR A FULL CHECK UP OR WHAT?" Rachet yelled and then there was silence for about a minute.
"We aren't Decepticons." I decided to break the silence
"What? Everyone knows your Boss is one!" This time it was Bulkhead yelling.
"And yet, does anyone else in this space station wear the Decepticon symbol?"
"No, but you have those monster droids as guards!" Bulkhead protested.
Yeah... that turned to not be one of my best ideas in hindsight, but I already had them and I had other priorities that building pretty looking robots, thank you very much.
"Is... is just you three on the ship?"
'Of course not, that would be ridiculous, right?'
"We refuse to answer that question." Rachet answered.
"So... is the rest of you injured or something?"
"No of course not! Why would you think that?" Bulkhead quickly answered.
"So if I were to offer you three medical and ship repair supplies for free, you wouldn't take them?"
"Can we get a moment to discuss about it?" Rachet asked.
"Sure, go ahead."
The communication cut off and it was several minutes before they contacted us again.
"So... you really aren't Decepticons? Despite Jetfire been know as Starscream's friend and those monster bots?" Bulkhead asked.
"Look, Jetfire has not associated with the Decepticons since they became extremists, he just did keep the symbol for sentimental reasons. But since there is no way I can't comvince you guys of that, here is what we are going to do. I will send a cargo ship with medical supplies to your location, you will take the supplies and leave. Otherwise I will let my friend Nova kill you with the Lone Star Moonbuster Cannon. Sounds good?"
Well, is not arrogant to call the cannon that if it literally can destroy moons.
"Who will be piloting the cargo ship?" Rachet asked.
"A drone. Try anything funny and the cargo ship will explode in your faces."
There was almost a minute of silence, they were probably arguing using internal coms.
"That sounds acceptable, just one question, why didn't you just kill us?"
"Because we are neutral, we don't want either Decepticons or Autobots causing us trouble. That's bad for business."
"Fine, we will take the deal." Rachet said in a resigned tone.
My best guess was, either it was really just three mechs or more likely, most of the crew was so damaged they had been forced to put them on stasis mode.
That would explain why Rachet would jump at the Captain with the coms on and why an admittedly unstable mech had been the Captain to start with.
Is one thing to be a suicidal idiot, is a different one to do so while putting a ship with injured bots on it at risk, more so if said bots are your comrades at arms.
"Glad to hear that, expect the cargo ship to arrive shorty and please do not try to get any closer to the space station. And yes that includes trying to sneak inside the cargo ship, that by the way can and will explode if needed."
It says something about my paranoia that I already had a cargo ship that was rigged to explode at my command before this, so I just had drones fill that one with medical supplies and even included some midgrade Energon alcohol. I wasn't gonna waste the better stuff on them, even if I kind of liked Rachet.
So the so called Wreckers picked the medical supplies and left, I wasn't quite sure what in the pit had this been about. Had the Decepticons leaked that the Wreckers were headed to Haven? Unless I was wrong about the rest of their crew, there was no way Rachet would have allowed an attack on this station with just three mechs.
Of course I blew up the cargo ship, just to be sure, I just waited until they were gone first.
'So what? They were heading here just to get supplies and then we were the ones who fired the first shot? Maybe yes, maybe not.
And actually, they didn't refer to themselves as the Wreckers at any point.
Suspicious.'
"Hey Nova, who told us these guys were the Wreckers anyway?"
#It was a rumor, but according to my database, Bulkhead and Whirl, were, are or will be members of the Wreckers, but that is based on information you have me and we already know not everything in this universe fits.#
"Any way to find out who started the rumor?"
#Unfortunately no, because you refused my idea to have hidden spy cameras and microphones all over Haven.#
I was paranoid, not Big Brother, and it was enough I could spy on anyone in the space station using drones if I wanted anyway.
"Well, at least anyone who watched your warning shot will think twice before trying to attack us. How are the shield upgrades for the Lone Star going?"
#Slow, the ship is too big and old and too much hardware needs to be replaced. And I can't do things too fast or it will make people aware of what we are doing.#
As soon as Nova had finished her super weapon upgrade to the Lone Star, I had put her in charge of the forcefield problem.
Of course part of the problem was perfectionism, Nova and I didn't want just your average forcefield, but the best we could build.
That also meant Blue Energon aka Highgrade. So even if the systems were finished, it was gonna take a while to get the energy stores for the forcefield to be full.
Of course the forcefields were going to be able to work using other energy sources but that would be at a cost of them not being as good at their job.
And it had not been three days later when Shockwave of the Deceptions wanted the Lone Star for himself.
And if I had been nervous about the Wreckers that maybe had not actually been the Wreckers, I was absolutely terrified of him.
With Megatron I could have played with his ego, but Shockwave prided himself in acting logical.
For example, he actually entered Haven in a civilian vessel before making his demand. That way we couldn't blow him up with the Moonbuster cannon unless we wanted to also lose the space station.
And he could also easily take hostages from the station workers that weren't drones if he wanted.
And if that wasn't bad enough, the freaking Dinobots of all bots showed up, also wanting the Lone Star!
Grimlock challenged Shockwave to a duel, we actually had a fighting stadium in Haven after all. And while Shockwave would probably have prefered a less fair fight, refusing would make him lose the respect of his troops. So he saw accepting as the logical choice.
And what did we do? Well nothing says we had to stay in the space station and watch the stupid duel or let any of the two groups steal our ship.
Yet... we couldn't abandon Jetfire, he was under watch by the Decepticon troops. But since I had not been in the station when the 'gentle bots' arrived, they didn't know were I was.
Unlike me, Jetfire was an important Transformers character and he still had that stupid Decepticon logo.
Not to mention that while I didn't think Shockwave would be unfair, he wouldn't tolerate any signs of rebellion if he won.
Oh and if Grimlock won they would probably trash the place and maybe end killing some bots if I just picked Jetfire and escaped with the Lone Star.
It was during their fight that I finally noticed something important, Grimlock and the other Dinobots had Decepticon symbols too!
In my defence... no there is nothing to say in my defence.
Now, Shockwave was smart and tough but there was one thing to Grimlock advantage, he was a former gladiator just like Megatron. And just like Megatron, he had not just been a Gladiator, but a champion.
And if there's one thing a gladiator bot is good at is one vs one fights.
So it cost Grimlock getting his arm damaged but he won.
And then Jetfire chalengued Grimlock, even offering to tie an arm behind his back. Heck, he even offered to have one of the others Dinobots help to fight him.
Grimlock of course refused to have that advantage, and that's when Jetfire size and mass advantage, plus the few upgrades he had allowed Fixit to install made a difference.
And by that I meant they were almost evenly matched, Grimlock was a way more experienced and brutal warrior, but Jetfire was a former Decepticon rebel. And he was able to walk away from said rebellion and survive until he found me at least.
So he was good too, just not that good. That was what I thought until both fighters started to slow down and my Boss pulled a blue energon saturated blade and stabbed it next to Grimlock Spark chamber.
The message was clear, he could have killed Grimlock any time during the duel, and that gladiator skill and warrior skills were different. Even in lethal matches, gladiators fought to give a show to an audience, a warrior fought to kill their enemy as fast as possible.
Surprisingly, Grimlock accepted his defeat, and Shockwave accepted that the Lone Star belonged to us.
Good thing too, because if Jetfire had lost... I may have done something I would have regretted forever.
Still just to be sure, I had the losers scorted away from Haven by a mix of Abominaroids, Guardian Robots and an army of mercenaries I had hired as soon as the first duel had started.
And after they finally fragging left I have Jetfire a hug and a have Fixit look him over for any injuries or anything else he had wrong.
Then I decided to enter stasis for twenty hours straight before my nervous breakdown finally started, with orders to Nova and the Furies to take care of things and only wake me up before that if another crisis happened.
After I woke up of stasis, I relieved my stress with a simulation were I killed zombie like bots for hours. And then I finally I talked with Jetfire about what to do. The Lone Star had become too temping a price and while Shockwave and Grimlock would probably keep their word, they likely weren't the only ones interested.
I wasn't going to let our spaceship be destroyed, not only would that be stupid, but also kill Nova. The AI had grown too much to fit in any portable computer, and by portable I mean any system we could carry away from the ship. And while I could transfer her to another big computer, making her the space station Haven main AI would put her at even more risk.
Joining the Deceptions was out the question and I honesty didn't want to be an Autobot since that would mean to have the Lone Star confiscated. Jetfire didn't want to end fighting Starscream and with both the Prime and Megatron not around is not like he was in a hurry to pick sides. The truce was technically going on after all.
There was also an option that I was saving as a last choice and could go horrible wrong, so in the end it was decided that Jetfire would stay as leader of Haven keeping most of the droids, save the Abominaroids and the Furies and with some mercenaries who were temped to become guards of Haven.
While I would leave in the Lone Star with the best fabricator, the Abominaroids, the Furies and some hired crew. Officially it was a supply run, unofficially he was letting me go to avoid the decent folk on Haven to be in danger.
And thats when I found myself as both the Captain and chief engineer of the Lone Star and no fragging clue what to do save to stay the frag away from both Decepticons and Autobots to keep Nova safe.
AN2: Do remember that G1 Jetfire Alt form in a Cybertronian spaceship big enough to fit a few Transformers inside it. So his weapons should also reflect that, here he didn't outright destroy Grimlock because firing even small spaceship grade weapons inside a space station tends to be a horrible idea, plus it was a duel. The energon supercharged blade was to show that Jetfire didn't even need his powerful guns to kill Grimlock. And that the former gladiator mech had been fighting the duel the wrong way. And that's not even taking into account the upgrades. Without those, the duel would have got a bit closer but Jetfire would still have pulled the same thing, if at the cost of losing a leg to make Grimlock lower his guard.
Also Scavenger doesn't know it, but at this time period Grimlock and the others are the "Dynobots" not "Dinobots" since their alt forms aren't dinosaurs yet. Is my way to make sence of the name without them being build in Earth origin story.
Sorry for those who were expecting an epic fight, and if the justification to not join the Autobots feels weak.
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